Drug discovery is like molecular Tetris. Chemists snap atoms together, adjusting the pieces until everything fits and suddenly, a molecule makes a promising new medicine.

Scientists usually study the molecular machinery that controls gene expression from the perspective of a linear, two-dimensional genome—even though DNA and its bound proteins function in three ...

A new academic study argues that the structural reliance of artificial intelligence (AI) systems on classification models creates significant challenges when AI systems attempt to represent fluid and ...

Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton says AI may have consciousness and could replace intellectual jobs like lawyers before manual ...

Sasha S. Rao and Todd M. Hopfinger of Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC discuss challenges in meeting patent law's disclosure requirements for inventions involving artificial intelligence, ...

A recent brain imaging study reveals that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder consists of at least two distinct physical subtypes. This discovery suggests that patients may eventually benefit ...

According to Mercer's 2024 AI in Investment Management global manager survey, 91% of asset managers either currently use AI (54%) or plan to use it within their investment strategy or asset-class ...

Machine Learning (ML) is a subset of Artificial Intelligence that allows computers to “learn” from data. Ordinarily, in programming, we provide data and the expected output, and the machine does the ...

Gift from Thomas and Susan Dunn supports creation of the Bike Shop @UChicago, which aims to shape AI development and build scalable solutions to pressing societal problems A $20 million gift from ...

This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Earlier this year, a slightly balding man in spectacles, a black T-shirt, and bright high-top ...

Like humans, artificial intelligence learns by trial and error, but traditionally, it requires humans to set the ball rolling by designing the algorithms and rules that govern the learning process.

Do you remember the early days of social media? The promise of connection, of democratic empowerment, of barriers crumbling and gates opening? In those heady days, the co-founder of Twitter said that ...